Offers readers an authoritative, in-depth exploration of the local area network. This book incorporates the latest technology, protocols, techniques, and hardware and software employed in computer networking. *covers topics such as: Local Area Network Concept, logical Link Control, medium Access Control, enterprise Internetworking, networking Software. *Part I explores some of the fundamental concepts and terminology associated with the various forms of LAN technology. *Part II describes the IEEE/ISO Logical Link Control standard. *Part III explains the different methods for medium access control that have been standardized to provide LAN data link services. *Part IV concentrates on issues surrounding the construction of enterprise internetworks. *Part V covers the wide variety of networking software that can be used in various computing environments for making use of LAN data links in computer networks.
- ISBN10 013075045X
- ISBN13 9780130750457
- Publish Date 1 July 1995 (first published 31 December 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 February 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 586
- Language English